About the Book
Poverty & Development in the 21st Century provides a fully updated, interdisciplinary overview of one of the world's most complex and pressing social problems. The book analyses and assesses key questions faced by practitioners and policy makers, ranging from what potential solutions to world poverty are open to us to what form development should take and whether it is compatible with environmental sustainability. The third
edition considers the complex causes of global poverty and inequality, introducing major development issues that include hunger, disease, the threat of authoritarian populism, the refugee crisis and environmental
degradation. Three new chapters illustrate the impact of climate, refugee and health crises on development by drawing on accounts of lived experience to explore the real-world implications of theory. Refreshed student-centred learning features include boxes outlining key concepts, definitions and cases that explore contested issues in greater depth. These case studies encourage critical reflection on key issues, from refugees' personal accounts of
containment to the Ebola epidemic to indigenous perspectives on climate change. Questions posed at the start of each chapter provide a framework for critical reflection on key assumptions and theories
within the field of development. Each chapter also clearly unpacks figures and tables, supporting students to develop a nuanced understanding of economic arguments and key skills of data interpretation Digital formats and resources The third edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - The e-book offers a mobile experience and
convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks - Students and lecturers are further supported by online
resources to encourage deeper engagement with content. For students: Web links organised by chapter to deepen students' understanding of key topics and explore their research interests For lecturers: Customisable PowerPoint slides support effective teaching
preparation Figures and tables from the book allow clear presentation of key data and support students' data analysis
Table of Contents:
Part One: Conceptions of Poverty and Development
1: Alan Thomas and Tim Allen: Why Poverty and Development?
2: Naila Kabeer and Alan Thomas: Poverty and Inequality
3: Alan Thomas: Meanings and Views of Development
4: Duncan Green and Tom Kirk: Agencies of Development
Part Two: Aspects and Causes of Poverty
5: Tim Allen, Shun-Nan Chiang, and Ben Crow: Hunger and Famine
6: Melissa Parker and Cristin Fergus: Diseases of Poverty
7: Peggy Froerer: Poverty and Education
8: David Wield: Unemployment and Making a Living
9: Valeria Cetorelli and Alan Thomas: Population, Poverty and Development
10: Kathryn Hochstetler: Environmental Degradation and Sustainability
11: Tim Allen and Tom Kirk: War and Armed Conflict
Part Three: Transformation and Development
12: Janet Bujra: Diversity in Pre-Capitalist Societies
13: Henry Bernstein: Colonialism, Capitalism, Development
14: David Potter and Alan Thomas: The Power of Colonial States
15: Tom Hewitt: The Era of Development - A short history
16: Guoer Liu and Andrew Kilmister: Socialist Models of Development and the Rise of China
Part Four: Challenges for Development
17: David Potter, Alan Thomas, and María del Pilar López-Uribe: Democratization, Governance, and Development
18: Charlotte Brown and Ruth Pearson: Rethinking Gender Matters in Development
19: Peter Robbins, David Wield, and Gordon Wilson: Engineering for Development
20: Cristin Fergus, Tim Allen, and Melissa Parker: New Directions and Challenges for Health and Development
21: Helen Hintjens, Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits, and Ali Bilgic: Migration, Security, and Development
Part Five: Prospects for Development
22: Tony Roberts, Kevin Hernandez, and Becky Faith: Digital Technologies
23: Jo Beall: City Life
24: Tom Kirk, Tim Allen, and John Eade: Identity Politics and Clashing Cultures
25: Dina Abbott, Gordon Wilson, and Alan Thomas: Climate Change and the End of Development
26: John Harriss: Returning to the 'Great Transformation'
27: Ikenna Acholonu, Charlotte Brown, and Ingrina Shieh: Poverty and Development: Prospects for the future
Conclusion
About the Author :
Tim Allen is the inaugural Director of the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, and is a Professor in the Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Alan Thomas is now retired, previously co-founder of Development Policy and Practice at The Open University, then Chair of International Development at Swansea University.
Review :
If the problem of development is to empower people to gain control of their own destiny, then poverty - whatever its cause - means the challenge continues undiminished everywhere on our planet. This big book gets us to think about all this systematically, rigorously, and powerfully.
This outstanding book is essential reading for students of international development, policy-makers, and anyone thinking about the human condition in our interdependent, globalised world. It asks the big questions. Why in an era of extraordinary wealth and scientific progress, do poverty and extreme deprivation continue to blight so many lives? How should we express human solidarity through international cooperation and multilateralism? As the climate crisis intensifies, ecological stress worsens, and inequality reaches ever more extreme proportions, is it time to rethink what we mean by 'development' and 'progress'? The author's combined academic rigour with readability and, critically practical reflections on how change happens.
This new edition of Poverty and Development marks a welcome return of one of the most interesting collection for teaching development. Lucid and comprehensive, the text covers the gamut of topics needed to teach international development, from the historical transformation of the Global South under the impact of European expansion, through the rival models of development propagated during the global Cold war, to the Great Transformation wrought by industrialisation of China and E. Asia. In addition, the book covers key issues in contemporary development, including new chapters on climate change, digital technologies, as well as on the changing nature of conflict. Comprehensive and up-to-date, the book illustrates clearly how policies in both North and South impact the welfare of the vast majority of humanity.
Poverty and Development remains a foundational volume in understanding the intricacies between poverty and development in developing regions. For those of us interested in Public Policy, Governance and Development in Africa, this book provides critical points of reference for understanding pertinent policy, and governance domains in the development paradigm. It thus offers unconventional insights for teaching, researching and studying governing components in Africa and similar contexts for years to come.
The dynamics of global change continually shift the frontiers of development practice, thought and theory. This thoroughly revised edition of Poverty and Development offers a measure of changes with collateral impact on development over the last twenty years. Some chapters and a thoughtful postscript consider the broad experience and implications of Covid-19. The online resources that accompany the book make it an extremely valuable reference, teaching and learning tool.
Poverty and Development is a succinct elucidation of how poverty and development interface in developing countries.
This brilliant book is an essential and thought-provoking contribution on how we look at the global challenge of poverty.
Allen and Thomas' book offers a dazzling, systematic and wide-ranging analysis of the most challenging topics in international development. It accomplishes this in an engaging and highly accessible way. This book is a must read for students, academics and those working in the field.
COVID-19 has thrown millions into poverty and threatens to undo decades of development. This updated and enhanced classic with its abundance of perspectives and rich insights helps us reflect again on the many inequalities the pandemic has unveiled and how to achieve more sustainable development.
This is exactly the sort of book that people go to university to read and discuss. It provides a great deal of food for thought for hungry minds: mixing theory and evidence very well, giving a wide geographical range of examples and drawing good conclusions.
Migration, Security & Development is an excellent new chapter. Well-balanced, it tackles the politics of migration in a nuanced manner.
